i9<5 EXTINCT BRITISH ANIMALS. 



nation, it is ordered that the Commanders in Chiefe 

 and Commissioners of the Revenue in the several 

 precincts doe consider of, use, and execute all good 

 wayes and meanes how the Wolves in the counties 

 and places within the respective precincts may be 

 taken and destroyed ; and to employ such person or 

 persons, and to appoint such daies and tymes for 

 hunting the "Wolfe, as they shall adjudge necessary. 

 And it is further ordered that all such person or 

 persons as shall take, kill, or destroy any Wolfes and 

 shall bring forth the head of the Wolfe before the 

 said commanders of the revenue, shall receive the 

 sums following, viz., for every bitch Wolfe, six 

 pounds;* for every dog Wolfe, five pounds ; for 

 every cubb which preyeth for himself, forty shillings ; 

 for every suckhng cubb, ten shillings. And no 

 Wolfe after the last September until the loth 

 January be accounted a young Wolfe, and the Com- 

 missioners of the Revenue shall cause the same to be 

 equaUie assessed within their precincts. 



" Dublin, June 29, 1653."! 



The assessments here ordered fell heavily in some 

 districts. Thus in December, 1665, the inhabitants 

 of Mayo county petitioned the Council of State that 

 the Commissioners of Assessment might be at liberty 



* The price paid in Sutherlandsliire, in 1621, was 6Z. 13s, i^d. 

 See p. 169. 



f Theae documents were extracted from the original Privy Council 

 Book of Cromwell's government in Ireland, preserved in Dublin Castle 

 and are quoted by Hardiman in his edition of O'Flaherty's " West or 

 H'lar Connaught," p. 180. 



